50 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

The most important reason Jalen Hurts will be a more accurate QB in 2021 is because it would be really hard to be worse 

Adams had fans in here. 

1 hour ago, WentzFan11 said:

People grow. 

Like how I grow when I see Kate Beckinsale?

1 hour ago, Bacarty2 said:

Sure man,  pellet's are for amateurs'. 

You're both amateurs. I'm going to take down a deer on tinicum island using only a knife. Then I am going to chop down a tree, split the wood, and state a fire for cooking it.

 

2 minutes ago, dawkdaballhawk said:

You're both amateurs. I'm going to take down a deer on tinicum island using only a knife. Then I am going to chop down a tree, split the wood, and state a fire for cooking it.

 

I hope you're not splitting the same wood Kate Beckinsdale gave you ....... 

24 minutes ago, dawkdaballhawk said:

Like how I grow when I see Kate Beckinsale?

Or HE when Barnett makes a bad play. 

1 hour ago, LeanMeanGM said:

The most important reason Jalen Hurts will be a more accurate QB in 2021 is because it would be really hard to be worse 

Biggest threat to Jalen Hurts' success, aside from himself, is the pack of young and dumb wide receivers we have.

"Was i supposed to adjust my route on that play?" "Did I run the wrong route?"

This pack of dimwits can get the head coach fired and the QB run out of town, traded, or worse.

5 minutes ago, CouchKing said:

Biggest threat to Jalen Hurts' success, aside from himself, is the pack of young and dumb wide receivers we have.

"Was i supposed to adjust my route on that play?" "Did I run the wrong route?"

This pack of dimwits can get the head coach fired and the QB run out of town, traded, or worse.

As it stands now the Eagles have two first round WR (Smith, Reagor), a second round WR (JJAW), a second round TE (Goedert), and a second round RB (Sanders).  That doesn't include Ertz, who I assume will be moved/released.

There's been quite a bit invested in the young offense -- how well it's been invested is another subject.  The really raw players should be limited to Hightower and Watkins.

11 minutes ago, CouchKing said:

Biggest threat to Jalen Hurts' success, aside from himself, is the pack of young and dumb wide receivers we have.

"Was i supposed to adjust my route on that play?" "Did I run the wrong route?"

This pack of dimwits can get the head coach fired and the QB run out of town, traded, or worse.

 

WRs weren't the blame for how putrid Wentz was last season.  That was on him.  The oline sucked in the first half of the Redskins game week 1 and that obviously threw him off for the second half but that doesn't explain that completely broken down level of play then extending the rest of the season. 

 

And also, big point, the QB wasn't run out of town.  He was demanding a trade and didn't want to stay here with Roseman remaining the GM. 

3 hours ago, RememberTheKoy said:

https://www.nbcsports.com/philadelphia/eagles/5-reasons-eagles-qb-jalen-hurts-will-be-more-accurate-qb-2021

 

5 reasons Hurts will be a more accurate QB in 2021

 

Experience: Just being a year older and having a year of experience will help Hurts become more accurate. A lot of quarterbacks who relied heavily on their running ability in college struggle with their accuracy early in their NFL careers as they begin to acclimate to the pro passing game. Randall Cunningham completed 42 percent of his passes as a rookie but completed 55 percent of his passes the rest of his Eagles career (the league average was 55.8 percent during that span). Donovan McNabb was at 49 percent as a rookie but up to 58 percent by Year 2. Look around the league. Josh Allen was just under 53 percent as a rookie, then 59 percent in Year 2 and over 69 percent last year. Even pocket passers like Matt Stafford (53 percent as a rookie, 63 percent since) and Andrew Luck (54 percent as a rookie, 62 percent the rest of his career) made huge strides in accuracy in Year 2. Experience is a valuable tool.

Better receivers: Having a presumably upgraded group of wide receivers should help a lot. All those young receivers Hurts was out there with in 2020 are now a year older and have some experience and now add a potential star in DeVonta Smith into the mix and some of those drops and incompletions should turn into completions and even big plays. If Hurts’ WRs caught just two more passes per game last year in his four starts, that 52.0 percent completion figure jumps up to 57 percent. If they catch three more per game it jumps up to 60 percent. That’s without Hurts doing anything different, just with his receivers making one more play every other drive.

Balanced offense: In the three games Hurts started and finished, the Eagles ran 160 pass plays (passes, sacks, Hurts scrambles) and 46 running plays. That’s a 78-22 pass-run ratio. In the first half of those three games, the ratio was a reasonable 67-33, and Hurts completed 62 percent of his passes. In the second half, the pass-run ratio jumped to an out-of-whack 82-18, and Hurts completed 48 percent of his passes. There’s no question the lack of balance in Doug Pederson’s play calling hampered Hurts’ ability to operate the offense efficiently. Not many young rookie QBs getting their first NFL playing time would be able to function at a high level when opposing defenses know they’re throwing every down.

Offensive line: You’re a rookie getting your first significant NFL playing time and your offensive line includes overmatched Brett Toth, struggling Matt Pryor, promising but inexperienced Jack Driscoll and Nate Herbig and an aging Jason Peters playing what may be his final NFL game. Good luck with that. Hurts played behind a different patchwork o-line every week, and he’s fortunate he had Jason Kelce and Isaac Seumalo out there the whole time but the three other positions were in constant flux with young, inexperienced players replacing other young, inexperienced players. Or in Peters’ case, an older player playing out the string. By the time Hurts first replaced Wentz, Lane Johnson, Brandon Brooks, Andre Dillard and Sua Opeta were already done for the season and Peters, Driscoll and Jordan Mailata soon followed. It was hard enough for Wentz – a 5^th-year pro and one-time MVP candidate - to function behind those duct-taped offensive lines. You can imagine the challenge for Hurts. If the Eagles can get through the year – or most of it - with Dillard or Mailata along with Seumalo, Kelce, Brooks and Johnson, Hurts will be in a much better position to succeed. Anybody would be.

Sirianni’s offense: Hurts threw down the field on a percentage basis more than any NFL quarterback last year, and those are naturally low-percentage throws. That explains why although he was last in the NFL in completion percentage, he was actually a respectable 25^th out of 44 in yards per attempt at 7.2 – right at the NFL average. Hurts’ average yards-per-completion was 13.8, highest by any NFL rookie since Vick in 2001 and second-highest of ANY quarterback in the last six years. Over the last five weeks of the season, Hurts completed nine passes of at least 30 yards. Only Tom Brady had more (13) during that span. And Hurts only played half of two of those games. Wentz completed only 14 passes of 30 yards all year, and he threw almost 300 more passes than Hurts. Nick Sirianni’s offense is big on creating matchup advantages and getting the football quickly into the hands of play-makers on high-percentage throws and letting them make plays down the field. Hurts will still take his deep shots, but just the nature of Sirianni’s offense should help Hurts dramatically.

Well he can't be a successful QB if he doesn't get more accurate.  

3 hours ago, EaglePhan1986 said:

Is this a selfie? You look much older and younger than I expected.  

Attention:

Happy Friday guys.  Your friendly neighborhood mods have been busy with life and catching up on reported items and activity.  Sorry to post this on a Friday but I finally have some time. There has been yet another increase in political posts in here lately and a lot of people reporting each other.  Sometimes we don't see the reported posts until a day or 2 (or more) later and the discussion has got back on track.  The pinned guidelines in #2 state:

"Politics belong in CVON; however there are sports-related political topics such as COVID affecting teams, national anthem or sports teams discussing racial justice.  Use your judgment and don't get off topic."

We did not want to have to police this board like the old Eagles affiliated board.  We're a relatively smaller community and we want people here to enjoy.  We don't want to warn, suspend or ban anyone unless truly necessary.  You have to have thick skin and not report every little thing, but at the same time when posts get way off topic it disrupts the intent of the particular topic.  We've posted warnings in here numerous times, changed the title, given warning points and suspended people...but it continues. 

So what do we do to fix this?

One option is to be extremely strict and give warnings points up to and including 2 week suspension (or ban if you have too many).  We can also set individuals who are constant repeat offenders to require mod approval before any post will show on the boards.  I know you don't want that, we don't want to do any of that!

The other option is for you all to follow the guidelines, to self-police by not replying to the political posts and tell people to stay on topic.  If you're one that brings up off- topic politics (Michael Jordan gif here): STOP IT.  If someone does post politically off-topic then yes report it and they'll get warning points.  But what makes it difficult is I see the reported posts and then see that 8-10 of you have replied to them for several pages and got in political arguments.  So do I have to warn/suspend 8 people?  I don't want to do that.  So don't contribute to the problem, don't feed the trolls, don't participate.

As the guideline says, there are definitely situations where politics get injected into sports.  But it's not the time to get into a left/right debate, bash a political party or start bringing up other political issues not related.  You all can decide to not post about it in here, or if a discussion is getting heated tell people to take it to CVON or start a new topic in TATE just about that issue and discuss it there.

Sorry for the long post but this has continued and many of you have complained and asked us to do something, and you should see the list of reported posts we get:  95% of them are from this blog.  You guys need to decide then how you will behave, take ownership.  You guys report each other like crazy but you also are posting replies to them instigating.

Remember we are volunteers just trying to make the forums a fun place.  I'm here if you want to chat about it (respectfully).  What do you think needs to happen, option 1 or option 2 (this is your red pill moment).

1 hour ago, dawkdaballhawk said:

You're both amateurs. I'm going to take down a deer on tinicum island using only a knife. Then I am going to chop down a tree, split the wood, and state a fire for cooking it.

 

Same  - except steak from a grocery store, also charcoal and a grill.  

Just now, Moderator6 said:

Attention:

Happy Friday guys.  Your friendly neighborhood mods have been busy with life and catching up on reported items and activity.  Sorry to post this on a Friday but I finally have some time. There has been yet another increase in political posts in here lately and a lot of people reporting each other.  Sometimes we don't see the reported posts until a day or 2 (or more) later and the discussion has got back on track.  The pinned guidelines in #2 state:

"Politics belong in CVON; however there are sports-related political topics such as COVID affecting teams, national anthem or sports teams discussing racial justice.  Use your judgment and don't get off topic."

We did not want to have to police this board like the old Eagles affiliated board.  We're a relatively smaller community and we want people here to enjoy.  We don't want to warn, suspend or ban anyone unless truly necessary.  You have to have thick skin and not report every little thing, but at the same time when posts get way off topic it disrupts the intent of the particular topic.  We've posted warnings in here numerous times, changed the title, given warning points and suspended people...but it continues. 

So what do we do to fix this?

One option is to be extremely strict and give warnings points up to and including 2 week suspension (or ban if you have too many).  We can also set individuals who are constant repeat offenders to require mod approval before any post will show on the boards.  I know you don't want that, we don't want to do any of that!

The other option is for you all to follow the guidelines, to self-police by not replying to the political posts and tell people to stay on topic.  If you're one that brings up off- topic politics (Michael Jordan gif here): STOP IT.  If someone does post politically off-topic then yes report it and they'll get warning points.  But what makes it difficult is I see the reported posts and then see that 8-10 of you have replied to them for several pages and got in political arguments.  So do I have to warn/suspend 8 people?  I don't want to do that.  So don't contribute to the problem, don't feed the trolls, don't participate.

As the guideline says, there are definitely situations where politics get injected into sports.  But it's not the time to get into a left/right debate, bash a political party or start bringing up other political issues not related.  You all can decide to not post about it in here, or if a discussion is getting heated tell people to take it to CVON or start a new topic in TATE just about that issue and discuss it there.

Sorry for the long post but this has continued and many of you have complained and asked us to do something, and you should see the list of reported posts we get:  95% of them are from this blog.  You guys need to decide then how you will behave, take ownership.  You guys report each other like crazy but you also are posting replies to them instigating.

Remember we are volunteers just trying to make the forums a fun place.  I'm here if you want to chat about it (respectfully).  What do you think needs to happen, option 1 or option 2 (this is your red pill moment).

Defund the Moderators! Blog Lives Matter!

9 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

Yep.  They are Steeler fan.  They hardly crack the big 3.  

Not this crap again

1 hour ago, NCiggles said:

Defund the Moderators! Blog Lives Matter!

You can't defund mods that don't have funds to begin with!

 

6 minutes ago, dawkdaballhawk said:

Not this crap again

Are you one of Bacartys Big 3 besties?

5 hours ago, 315Eagles said:

Fair point....I'm sure he'd rather go to a big market but is it worth losing all that money?  He's gotta decide about that.  

That's up to him.  Money isn't all there is.

10 minutes ago, Khani1 said:

Are you one of Bacartys Big 3 besties?

No, just someone that had to sift through pages of Big 3 posts.

3 hours ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

Pellet smokers are for amateurs.  

My Father's Day weekend will consist of the following:  

 

Tonight- Low Country Boil (shrimp not crawdads).

Sat- Mexcalito Restaurant.  Unbelievable carnitas.  

Sun- Dry Aged Rib-Eye, with burgundy mushrooms and horsey sauce.  

Sure, that's true.  But no reason to look down on those who use one.   Most folks who smoke foods aren't being paid to do it, but are doing it just to cook some food for their families.

6 minutes ago, dawkdaballhawk said:

No, just someone that had to sift through pages of Big 3 posts.

Here's a Big 3

42 minutes ago, Moderator6 said:

Attention:

The other option is for you all to follow the guidelines, to self-police by not replying to the political posts and tell people to stay on topic.  

I'm confused... do I not reply or do I reply to tell them to stay on topic?  

 

In other news... that was a lot to read.  I prefer gifs.   Next time, just a simple little:

But keep up the good work in the meantime.

52 minutes ago, Moderator6 said:

Attention:

Happy Friday guys.  Your friendly neighborhood mods have been busy with life and catching up on reported items and activity.  Sorry to post this on a Friday but I finally have some time. There has been yet another increase in hockey posts in here lately and a lot of people reporting each other.  Sometimes we don't see the reported posts until a day or 2 (or more) later and the discussion has got back on track.  The pinned guidelines in #2 state:

"Hockey belongs in other Sports; however there are sports-related hockey topics such as COVID affecting hockey, national anthem or sports teams discussing hockey.  Use your judgment and don't get off topic."

We did not want to have to police this board like the old Eagles affiliated board.  We're a relatively smaller community and we want people here to enjoy.  We don't want to warn, suspend or ban anyone unless truly necessary.  You have to have thick skin and not report every little thing, but at the same time when posts get way off topic it disrupts the intent of the particular topic.  We've posted warnings in here numerous times, changed the title, given warning points and suspended people...but it continues. 

So what do we do to fix this?

One option is to be extremely strict and give warnings points up to and including 2 week suspension (or ban if you have too many).  We can also set individuals who are constant repeat offenders to require mod approval before any post will show on the boards.  I know you don't want that, we don't want to do any of that!

The other option is for you all to follow the guidelines, to self-police by not replying to the political posts and tell people to stay on topic.  If you're one that brings up off- topic politics (Michael Jordan gif here): STOP IT.  If someone does post hockey off-topic then yes report it and they'll get warning points.  But what makes it difficult is I see the reported posts and then see that 8-10 of you have replied to them for several pages and got in hockey arguments.  So do I have to warn/suspend 8 people?  I don't want to do that.  So don't contribute to the problem, don't feed the trolls, don't participate.

As the guideline says, there are definitely situations where hockey gets injected into sports.  But it's not the time to get into a left/right debate, bash a hockry party or start bringing up other hockey issues not related.  You all can decide to not post about it in here, or if a discussion is getting heated tell people to take it to Other Sports or start a new topic in TATE just about that issue and discuss it there.

Sorry for the long post but this has continued and many of you have complained and asked us to do something, and you should see the list of reported posts we get:  95% of them are from this blog.  You guys need to decide then how you will behave, take ownership.  You guys report each other like crazy but you also are posting replies to them instigating.

Remember we are volunteers just trying to make the forums a fun place.  I'm here if you want to chat about it (respectfully).  What do you think needs to happen, option 1 or option 2 (this is your red pill moment).

Mod 6 said no hockey talk. Thanks. 

Nothing in there about our 💩 talks 

5 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

Sorry fella 

No need.  Just pointing out that there's no need to be elitist about smokers.

1 minute ago, Iggles_Phan said:

No need.  Just pointing out that there's no need to be elitist about smokers.

21 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

I'm confused... do I not reply or do I reply to tell them to stay on topic?  

 

In other news... that was a lot to read.  I prefer gifs.   Next time, just a simple little:

But keep up the good work in the meantime.

Your replies should not continue the off-topic politics, but you can reply to tell them to quit it. Let me dumb it down for you:

Moar politics = NO

Stop posting politics = YES